You hurt in millions of ways, and you hurt in such ways that nobody can defend themselves from you. Sometimes you hurt in “good” ways, with good reasons, rationalizations. You say something to a person which may be true, and you say, “I am saying the truth,” but deep down the desire is to hurt the man by saying the truth. Then the truth is worse than a lie; it should not be told. If you can’t make your truth sweet and nice and beautiful, better not to say it. And always look within for what you are saying it. What is the deep desire? Do you want to hurt the other in the name of truth? Then your truth is poisoned already: it is no longer religious, it is no longer moral — it is already immoral. Drop that truth. I tell you, even a lie is good if it is spoken out of love, and a truth is bad it is spoken just to hurt. These are not dead principles. You have to understand them, and you have to understand the knack of using them. I have seen people using good principles for bad reasons...
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:59:22 +0000